Past Medical History
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Anatomy and history enthusiast. Posts about the history of Medicine. The official Past Medical History account. #histmed
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Beautiful mid-sagittal section of the brain from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of human anatomy, 1st published in 1904 #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) the French physician who edited the anatomy masterpiece Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), the father of modern #psychiatry , pictured in his latter years #histmed #historyofmedicine #historyofpsychiatry #pastmedicalhistory
Edward Jenner - 'the father of immunology' #histmed #historyofmedicine #vaccine #immunology #pastmedicalhistory
The lateral aspect of the neck. From the Atlas of applied (topographical) human anatomy for students and practitioners. Bardeleben, K.H., & Haeckel, E. (1906). Public domain: bit.ly/3EIwwjE #histmed #anatomy #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
Emperor Pedro II of Brazil visiting people with cholera in 1855. #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
Beautiful sagittal section of the head showing the brain and cerebellum by Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory
Intricately detailed dissection from Vesalius's 1543 De humani corporis fabrica #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory
Robert Koch (third from the right) on a cholera research expedition in Egypt in 1884, one year after he identified Vibrio cholerae #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory #cholera #Egypt
Man with a 90lb testicular tumour 'removed in the memseric sleep by Dr James Esdaile' (1808-1859) #histmed #histsurg #historyofmedicine #historyofsurgery #pastmedicalhistory
Illustration of the Cannabis Sativa plant from the 6th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript, Vienna Dioscurides, c. 512 CE #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
Auguste Deter in 1902 - the first patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease #histmed #Alzheimers #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
German psychiatrist Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer first described 'presenile dementia' in 1906 #histmed #historyofmedicine #historyofpsychiatry #pastmedicalhistory
Cocaine Toothache Drops - Instantaneous Cure! Circa 1885 #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
A photo portrait of the Bedonkohe Apache leader and medicine man, Geronimo. Taken in 1898 by Frank A Rinehart. #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
U.S. Public Health cancer awareness poster circa. 1950 #histmed #publichealth #beatcancer #pastmedicalhistory #historyofmedicine